Evidence That What Seems To Be A Double Standard Is Employed, Even When You Think It's Not

This is an old incident (June 2016) but I am just finding out about it, and I felt I had to use it to make a point. 

      A lot of people have probably used this case as 'evidence' that it is not only black males whose rights are being violated by the police department. They probably argued that it's not a color issue at all,  that it is simply young men who do not obey police commands and who  assault the police. (I saw a phrase something like that posted yesterday as a comment.) I almost thought the same thing myself when I first saw it.  After thinking about it for a few minutes, and rereading it, I realized something. I''m not going to tell  you just yet what it was; I'm going to post the story and let you watch the video, and let you draw your own conclusions.

Video of Mo. Cop Using Taser on Teen for Over 20 Seconds Released

     On Monday a federal judge released the police dashcam video showing a now-former Independence, Mo., police officer using excessive force during the 2014 traffic-stop arrest of then-17-year-old Bryce Masters, the Kansas City Star reports.

     The video of the Sept. 14, 2014, arrest shows then-Officer Timothy N. Runnels using a stun gun on Bryce for more than 20 seconds before dropping the handcuffed teen onto the pavement. Bryce ultimately went into cardiac arrest as a result of the use of force, which led to oxygen deprivation and brain damage.

According to the Kansas City Star, the teen, then a Truman High School senior, almost died.

    Runnels was sentenced to four years in federal prison last week for violating the teen’s civil rights. The video was played during his sentencing hearing. (I could not copy the video, but you can view it here.)

     It was determined that Runnels made the traffic stop because of a Kansas City warrant associated with the license plate on the vehicle that the teen was driving. The warrant was later found to be a mistake.

     A few minutes after deploying the stun gun, Runnels called for an ambulance but reportedly did not check on the teen. By the time the ambulance arrived, Masters was in cardiac arrest. He had to be put into a medically induced coma.

     The brain damage the teen suffered could impact the rest of his life. He recently testified that he is often forgetful and has difficulty focusing.

Read more at the Kansas City Star. 

WHAT I GOT FROM THE VIDEO
     If you watched the video you saw that this teen was.....white! Can this be true? They treat white boys the same as they treat black ones? Isn't that interesting.
     But wait a minute. At one point in the story it said that the officer involved was sentenced to 4 years in  federal prison for violating the teen's civil rights. Now that's something, an officer is actually being punished for his crime!  But the victim didn't even die! How is it that so many have died and the officers walked away scot free, but this time the officer is punished? Could it be that the racial "double standard"  is alive and well and working in this case?  Think about it; obviously the officer did something wrong which was proven on the videotape.  How many videotapes have we looked at where blacks lost their lives when there was no justification for the shooting? In this case,  the victim's civil rights were violated, so the officer was charged. How many cases of civil rights violations as well  as manslaughter have we seen, and the officer was charged? Now, this officer was sentenced to four years in federal prison. How many of the officers in those other cases were even found guilty, let alone sentenced to federal prison??

Justice sure seems to be blind, doesn't she? Or maybe she's just colorblind...